EVER MORE @ Photo MBAM, Julie Ciot
EVER MORE is part of Kurt Hentschläger’s ongoing body of work reflecting on the aesthetic and psychological reverberations of the Anthropocene. In this piece, he explores the emergence of a hybrid nature — an amalgamation of physical and virtual elements that blend together seamlessly.
While this hybrid nature might suggest a celebration of the physical world, its simulated gestalt is tinged with sentimentality, masking the exploitation, depletion, and accelerating unraveling of natural habitats across the globe.
As experiencing nature through media becomes increasingly the norm for people living in large urban areas — now encompassing about half of the world’s population — the distinctions between human-made and naturally occurring realities grow ever more blurred.
EVER MORE is a single-screen work built on concepts of discontinuity and non-linearity. Edited, animated, and composited video recordings of wild prairie plants and flowers are interwoven with effects, lighting, and 3D-synthesized landscapes, transforming into a continuously shape-shifting, manneristic, organic flow — at once natural and synthetic, familiar and alien.
Although its moving images make EVER MORE a time-based work, its creation process stems more from the spirit of painting than from film. Finally, by presenting the work outdoors throughout the cold and snowy months of winter, the intention is that it serve as an illuminating and colorful counterpoint — uplifting the spirits of Montrealers.
• 01 October 2025 - 05 April 2026, Digital Canvas (curated by Richard Castelli — EPIDEMIC), Michal and Renata Hornstein Pavilion, Montreal Museum of Fine arts (CA)
